Jauce - How does it work?

[Ucwepn]

I haven't used it personally but my understanding of how it works goes like this: Japanese Auction sites do not sell to foreigners outside of Japan, so in order for people overseas to buy items in Japanese Auctions there are middleman services such as Jauce. You pay for postage and the cost of the item and the item gets sent to the middleman who repacks the item/s and sends them to you. You have to pay for this service each time so that's why people say it's better to get a bigger order to save on middleman costs of multiple transactions. So you essentially have to pay for postage twice and the middleman for his time etc. Seemingly cheap items can get expensive fast with all the extra cost.